Daily Pentagon Jackpot: On Hiatus

We’re pretty happy with the idea of the Daily Pentagon Jackpot, a new feature here that documents, one contract at a time, the breadth and scope of the Defense Department’s financial sprawl. In fact, we’re so happy with it that we want to do it right. And so we’re putting it on ice for a few weeks.

Basically, a number of you who know the Pentagon procurement game have commented and e-mailed to say that we’re not really capturing the full contextualized realities of Defense Department contracting. That’s the sort of criticism we take seriously. So instead of continuing with a faulty beta-test, we’re going to pull the feature for a bit, figure out how to make it work in line with its mission statement, and relaunch next month.

I’m heading to Afghanistan in the very near future, so I’m going to focus on that first. But the feature will return — done right — shortly thereafter. Keep sending us your input in the meantime.

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